1993: Romanov remains identified
British forensic scientists announce that they have positively identified the remains of Russia's last
czar, Nicholas II; his wife, Czarina Alexandra; and three of their daughters. The scientists used mitochondria DNA fingerprinting to identify the bones, which had been excavated in a forest near Yekaterinburg by Russians scientists in 1991. The Crown Prince Alexei and one Romanov daughter were not accounted for, fueling the persistent legend that
Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, had survived the July 1918 execution of her family by the Bolsheviks. Of the several Anastasias that surfaced in Europe in the decade after the
Russian Revolution, Anna Anderson, who died in the United States in 1968, was the most convincing. In 1994, however, British and American scientists used DNA to prove that Anna Anderson was not Anastasia but a Polish woman named Franziska Schanzkowska.
1997
American heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson is fined 3 million dollars and has his
licence revoked for a year for biting off part of
Evander Holyfield's ear during their world title fight in June.
1984
In
Britain, lightning sets fire to York Minister - the 700 year old building suffering severe damage.
1964
British group The Animals reach the
UK Number One with The House Of The Rising Sun.
1960
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warns the United States against intervention in
Cuba. 1955
American group Bill Haley and the Comets reach Number One in the US Chart with Rock Around the Clock.1954
Australia's 24 year old golfer Peter Thompson becomes the youngest winner of the Open Golf Championship.1951
In America, during the McCarthy Communist purge,
crime novelist
Dashiell Hammett is jailed for contempt for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1938
In Britain, the civilian population is issued with gas masks in case of war with
Germany. 1922
18 year old American swimmer Johnny Weismuller becomes the first person to cover 100 metres in less than a minute in a new world record time of 58.6 seconds.1900
In England, Queen Victoria gives the Royal Assent to the Australian Federation Bill which sets up of
the Commonwealth of
Australia in January 1901.
1877
The first Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship. The only
competition, the men's singles title, is won by
Spencer Gore - beating fellow British player W.C.Marshall in three sets.
1872
The first doughnut cutter patented in America by a sea captain, John
Blondel. He is said to have invented the hole so he could put the doughnut over the handle of the ships' wheel while steering.
1816
The Congress of Tucuman confirms Argentina's independence from
Spain. 1540
Henry VIII divorces his fourth wife.
Anne of Cleves - nicknamed the Flanders' Mare - after just six months of marriage.
1191
Richard I (the Lionheart) marries Berengaria. Although Queen of England, she never set foot on English soil. 
